Shafal Mosed

Shafal Mosed (1978-) was a member of the "Lackawanna Six" cell of al-Qaeda.

Biography
Shafal Mosed was born in 1978 in Detroit, Michigan to a family of Yemeni-Americans, and his father's Ford Motor Company job took the family to Buffalo, New York soon after his birth. He took care of his sickly mother and three younger siblings when his father died, and he worked as a telemarketer, taking computer courses at the local community college to provide for his poor family. He later became a member of the "Lackawanna Six", a group of six Yemeni-Americans who planned to join al-Qaeda, and in the spring of 2001 they headed to Afghanistan and trained at a training camp. In 2003, they returned home, and they were arrested; Mosed served eight years in prison.